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The Toll of A. Bell

MonsterTalk

Monster House LLC

History, Science, Society & Culture, Natural Sciences

4.71.3K Ratings

🗓️ 25 July 2018

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

MonsterTalk host Blake Smith looks back at the career and impact of radio-host Art Bell who passed away on April 13, 2018 at the age of 72. Bell’s influential radio show Coast to Coast AM (still being produced today with George Noory at the microphone) was the launching pad for thousands of stories of the bizarre, the mysterious and the conspiratorial. Was he simply an entertainer? Was he harmful to the American radio listener? Some thoughts on the cultural impact of this titan of the night. Read the episode notes Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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As far as I'm concerned, the best way to hear Art Bell

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was while driving late at night, far away from the lights of big cities.

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In the darkness under the starry canopy of rural skies, the musical intro to his show would come cutting into the interior of whatever

0:34.0

piece of junk I was currently making payments on. Sometimes I would be struggling to

0:38.9

stay awake trying to find anything entertaining or engaging to listen to that would keep me alert so I could continue

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towards my destination.

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And out there in the darkness between the static, the sports shows, the repeat political

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shows from earlier in the day, the Spanish language Mariati stations,

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they would come the tune that heralded a trip into the unknown. known.

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From the high desert and the great American Southwest, This is Coast to Coast AM, heard across 24 time zones. That would be the world as we know it.

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I'm Art Bell, and it's great to be here lots of news for you tonight.

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It's actually quite unlike anything we've ever seen before.

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A giant hairy creature, part 8, part man.

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In Larkness, a 24 mile long bottomless lake in the highlands of Scotland.

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It's a creature known as the Loch Ness Monster. M Monster Talk.

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